KTVB, channel 7, is the NBC-affiliated television station in Boise, Idaho, it is owned by Belo Corporation. The station broadcasts its digital signal on VHF channel 7.

The station also operates a low-power repeater in Twin Falls, KTFT-LD, whose programming originates from the KTVB studios. The two signals are identical, with the exception of commercials, which are sold and targeted to the Magic Valley area.

Digital television[link]

The station's digital channel is multiplexed:

In June 2009, KTVB received permission to increase its power.^[1]

History[link]

The station, Idaho's oldest, signed on July 12, 1953, as KIDO-TV. It was originally owned by Georgia Davidson, along with radio station KIDO-AM. Davidson was one of only three female station owners in the NBC network. The others were Marietta Meyer Ekberg of KFYR-TV in Bismarck, North Dakota, and Dorothy Bullitt of future sister station KING-TV in Seattle. Davidson sold KIDO-AM in 1959 but kept KIDO-TV, which she renamed KTVB.

KTVB has always been a primary NBC affiliate. After KBOI-TV (Channel 2, CBS) signed on in November 1953, the two stations briefly shared secondary DuMont affiliations, and shared secondary ABC affiliations until KITC (Channel 6) signed on in 1974. Before KAID-TV (Channel 4, PBS) signed on in December 1971, KTVB pre-empted the second hour of the Today Show to carry Sesame Street without commercials on weekday mornings.

In the early 1960s, KTVB built a satellite station in La Grande, Oregon. KTVR-TV channel 13 went on the air December 6, 1964, as a semi-satellite of KTVB, but had a La Grande studio at 1605 Adams Ave., producing a nightly newscast and other local programming. However, by 1967, the La Grande studio and office had been closed and KTVR was a total satellite of KTVB. KTVR was unique in the Pacific time zone because as a repeater of a Mountain time zone station, its "prime-time" schedule was broadcast from 6 to 9 p.m. PT, two hours early. OEPBS (now Oregon Public Broadcasting) bought KTVR on August 31, 1976, and converted it to PBS programming on February 1, 1977.

Philo Farnsworth, the father of television and an Idaho native, was present as the station signed on the air. During KTVB's fiftieth year celebration, the tag line "the first television station in the state where TV was invented" was used in some promotional announcements.

In 1979, KTVB was sold to the Bullitts' King Broadcasting Company, joining KING in Seattle, KREM-TV in Spokane, and KGW-TV in Portland, as part of the King Northwest Network. King Broadcasting was sold to the Providence Journal Company in 1992, which was later sold to current owner Belo Corporation in 1997.

KTVB started transmitting digital signals only, effective June 12, 2009.^[2] The station was one of four VHF digital stations granted a power increase later that month after stations experienced signal problems as a result of changing their digital channel from UHF to VHF.^[3]

In November 2003, KTVB launched 24/7, a 24-hour cable news channel consisting primarily of syndicated programming and original newscasts; the network is distributed on digital channel 7.2 as well as on a variety of local cable systems. KTVB has branched out in to non-traditional areas, such as its free "Idaho Classifieds" project on the ZIdaho website. In August 2011, KTVB became the first station in Boise to broadcast their entire weekday schedule in High Definition.

News operation[link]

The KTVB news slogan is "Where the News Comes First". The station produces just more than 30 hours of original news and sports programming per week.

Former reporters have gone on to attain national prominence, including Christi Paul of CNN Headline News, Trace Gallagher of Fox News, David Kerley of ABC News and Meg Oliver of CBS News Up To The Minute.

The KTVB news gathering fleet includes a new state of the art satellite truck purchased in 2006, allowing for live coverage of events across the region. KTVB's resources also include two live units, 10 news gathering vehicles, and a digital production truck.

In 2004 and 2006, KTVB-TV was recognized with Emmy Awards by the National Academy of Television Arts and Sciences, Northwest Chapter in the area of Program Achievement for having the best evening newscast in the Pacific Northwest, small market division.

News/station presentation[link]

Newscast titles[link]

• KIDO-TV News (1953–1957)
• The Esso Reporter (1957–1960)
• TV-7 News (1960–1974)
• NewsCenter 7 (1974–1997)
• Idaho's NewsChannel 7 (1997–present)

Station slogans[link]

• "Idaho's NewsChannel" (1986–1997)
• "Where the News Comes First" (1997–present)

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News team[link]

[edit] Current on-air staff^[4]

Anchors

• Kim Fields - weekend evenings
• Carolyn Holly - weekdays at noon, and weeknights at 10 p.m.
• Mark Johnson - weeknights at 6 and 10 p.m.; also Viewpoint co-host
• Maggie O'Mara - weekday mornings
• Doug Petcash - weekday mornings
• Dee Sarton - weeknights at 5 and 6 p.m.; also Viewpoint co-host

First Alert Weather

• Rick Lantz (AMS Certified Broadcast Meteorologist and NWA Seals of Approval) - chief meteorologist; weeknights at 5, 6 and 10 p.m.
• Jim Duthie - meteorologist; weekend mornings
• Larry Gebert - meteorologist; weekday mornings and noon
• Brian Holmes - meteorologist; weekend evenings

Sports team

• Ryan Larrondo - sports reporter
• Jay Tust - sports reporter
• Tom Scott - host of Sunday Sports Extra

Reporters

• Ty Brennan - general assignment reporter
• Justin Corr - general assignment reporter
• Scott Evans - general assignment reporter
• Jamie Grey - general assignment and investigative reporter
• Andrea Lutz - general assignment reporter
• Natalie Podgorski - weekday morning reporter

Translators[link]

This list is incomplete; you can help by expanding it.

KTVB is rebroadcast on the following translator stations:

All of the translators in Nevada and most in Oregon are in the Pacific Time Zone.

KTFT-LD translator[link]

KTFT-LD is rebroadcast on digital translator K49IT-D in Hagerman, Idaho.^[6] K49IT-D is owned and operated by the Hagerman Translator district and not Belo Corporation and King Broadcasting Company.

See also[link]

• Circle 7 logo
• 24/7 NewsChannel
• Northwest Cable News

References[link]

External links[link]

• KTVB website
• KTFT website
• Belo website
• Query the FCC's TV station database for KTVB
• Query TV Fool's coverage map for KTVB
  • Query the FCC's TV station database for KTFT
  • Query TV Fool's coverage map for KTFT
• BIAfn's Media Web Database -- Information on KTVB-TV
  • BIAfn's Media Web Database -- Information on KTFT-LD

Mia Hamm

Personal information
Full name	Mariel Margaret Hamm
Date of birth	(1972-03-17) March 17, 1972 (age 40)
Place of birth	Selma, Alabama, United States
Height	5 ft 5 in (1.65 m)
Playing position	Forward
Senior career*
Years	Team	Apps†	(Gls)†
1989–1993	North Carolina Tar Heels	100	(103)
2001–2003	Washington Freedom	49	(25)
National team‡
1987–2004	United States	275	(158)
Honours Competitor for USA Women's football (soccer) Competitor for the USA Olympic Games Gold Atlanta 1996 Team competition Gold Athens 2004 Team competition Silver Sydney 2000 Team competition
* Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only and correct as of June 28, 2007. † Appearances (Goals). ‡ National team caps and goals correct as of June 29, 2007

Mariel Margaret "Mia" Hamm (born on March 17, 1972, in Selma, Alabama) is a retired American soccer player. Hamm played many years as a forward for the United States women's national soccer team and was a founding member of the Washington Freedom. Hamm has scored more international goals in her career than any other player, male or female, in the history of U.S. soccer (158).^[1] She is the second most capped female player in soccer history behind Kristine Lilly, appearing in 275 international matches throughout her career.

Hamm was named the women's FIFA World Player of the Year the first two times that award was given (in 2001 and 2002), and is listed as one of FIFA's 125 best living players (as chosen by Pelé). Washington Post columnist Michael Wilbon called Hamm, "Perhaps the most important athlete of the last 15 years."^[2]

She retired from the sport in 2004, when she played her last game in the 2004 Fan Celebration Tour to commemorate the U.S. women's national team's victory in the 2004 Olympics. In 2007, her first year of eligibility, she was selected for induction into the National Soccer Hall of Fame by having 137 votes of the 141 ballots cast. Women's Professional Soccer, a professional soccer league that launched in 2009, features Hamm's silhouette in its logo.^[3]

Hamm was inducted into the Alabama Sports Hall of Fame Class of 2006 ^[4] and the Texas Sports Hall of Fame on March 11, 2008.^[5]

Mia Hamm clashes with Germany 1998.

She is the author of Go For the Goal: A Champion's Guide to Winning in Soccer and Life. She appeared in the HBO documentary Dare to Dream: The Story of the U.S. Women's Soccer Team.

Hamm takes a corner kick.

Early years[link]

Hamm was born with a club foot and had to wear corrective shoes as a toddler.^[6] Hamm spent her childhood on Air Force bases with her parents, Bill and Stephanie Hamm, and her five siblings. The family moved many times and resided in several places including San Antonio, Texas, and Italy.^[7] Hamm played organized sports from a very young age, and at age fifteen she joined the U.S. women's national team, becoming the youngest ever to play for them.^[8] She played for Notre Dame Catholic High School, Wichita Falls, Texas, as a freshman and a sophomore. Hamm then attended Lake Braddock Secondary School in Burke, Virginia for one year, and helped the Lake Braddock soccer team win the 1989 state championships.^[9] Mia Hamm's brother played sports, inspiring her to do so as well.

She attended the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, where she helped the Tar Heels to four National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) women's championships in five years (she sat out the season of 1991 to concentrate on the 1991 FIFA Women's World Cup in China). North Carolina only lost one game in the ninety five she played on the team.^[9] She was an All-American and Atlantic Coast Conference player of the year for her last three years. She also won ACC Female Athlete of the Year in 1993 and 1994.

Women's national team[link]

In 1991, when the women's national team won the FIFA Women's World Cup for the first time, Hamm became the youngest American woman to win a World Cup championship at the age of nineteen.

She was also a member of the American National college team that played in the 1993 Summer Universiade and lost to China, obtaining the silver medal. She was the leading scorer with six goals. She graduated from college with the all-time records for her conference in goals with 103, assists with 72, and total points with 278.

On May 22, 1999, Hamm broke the all-time international goal record with her 108th goal in a game against Brazil in Orlando, Florida.

Hamm in pregame workout.

In 1999, Nike named the largest building on their corporate campus after Hamm, and that same year she and the rest of the women on the national team became world champions again by winning the FIFA Women's World Cup. The final match surpassed the Atlanta Olympic final as the most-attended women's sports event, with over 90,000 filling the Rose Bowl.

Hamm was named the 1997 Sportswoman of the Year (in the team category) by the Women's Sports Foundation.^[9]

On May 14, 2004, she announced her retirement effective after the 2004 Athens Olympics, expressing an interest in starting a family with her husband, Nomar Garciaparra.^[10][11]

In March 2004, Hamm and former U.S. teammate Michelle Akers were the only two women, and the only two Americans, named to the FIFA 100, a list of the 125 greatest living soccer players selected by Pelé and commissioned by FIFA for that organization's 100th anniversary.Other accolades include being elected Soccer USA's female athlete of the year five years in a row (1994-1998), MVP of the Women's Cup in 1995 and the winner of three ESPY awards, including Soccer Player of the Year and Female Athlete of the Year.

In a friendly game against Australia on July 21, 2004, Hamm scored her 151st international goal; she has long held the record in that category for any player, male or female. This match also marked her 259th international appearance; only her teammate Kristine Lilly has played in more internationals.

She helped lead Team USA to a gold medal at the 2004 Summer Olympics and was also chosen by her fellow U.S. Olympians to carry the American flag at the Athens Closing Ceremonies. After the Olympics, Hamm and her teammates went on a "farewell tour" of the United States, which finished on December 8, 2004 against Mexico at the Home Depot Center in Carson, California. In the game, which the U.S. won 5–0, Hamm assisted on two of the goals. Hamm is one of three longtime national team members who announced their retirements from international play at the end of the tour; the others are longtime captain Julie Foudy and Joy Fawcett (Fawcett did not play due to back surgery after the Olympics). Hamm retired with 158 international goals at age thirty-two.

Club[link]

For the majority of Hamm's career, there was no fully professional women's soccer league in the United States. As a result, she played only three seasons of club soccer. In 2001 she signed for the Washington Freedom in the newly established Women's United Soccer Association. The league suspended operations indefinitely in September 2003, but Hamm finished her short club career as a champion when the Freedom won the Founders Cup in that final season.

Personal life[link]

Her adoptive brother, Garrett Hamm, died on April 16, 1997 of complications from aplastic anemia, a rare blood disease. Hamm established the Mia Hamm Foundation in part to support patients and their families who benefit from bone marrow transplants.

Hamm was first married to her college sweetheart Christian Corry, a United States Marine Corps CH-53E helicopter pilot; they divorced in 2001.^[12][13]

Hamm married then-Boston Red Sox shortstop Nomar Garciaparra on November 22, 2003, in Goleta, California in a private ceremony, attended by three hundred guests. On March 27, 2007, Hamm gave birth to twin girls, Grace Isabella and Ava Caroline. Though born five weeks early, each girl weighed over 5 pounds (2.3 kg) at birth.^[14] Twins run in both Hamm's and Garciaparra's families.^[15]

Coaching and other work[link]

Hamm is a global ambassador for FC Barcelona. She also hosts an annual celebrity soccer game in Los Angeles to support her foundation which raises funds for families needing marrow and cord blood transplants.^[16]

Championships[link]

See also[link]

• List of association women football players with 100 or more international goals

References[link]

Notes

Sources

• Mia Hamm: High Heels and Football at the International Olympic Committee website

External links[link]

Wikimedia Commons has media related to: Mia Hamm

• Mia Hamm's U.S. Olympic Team bio, with photos, video
• Mia Hamm Foundation
• Mia Hamm at the Internet Movie Database
• Works by or about Mia Hamm in libraries (WorldCat catalog)

United States squads v t e United States squad – 1991 FIFA Women's World Cup Champions (1st Title) 1 Harvey 2 Heinrichs (c.) 3 Higgins 4 Werden 5 Henry 6 Chastain 7 Bates 8 Hamilton 9 Hamm 10 Akers 11 Foudy 12 Jennings 13 Lilly 14 Biefield 15 Gebauer 16 Belkin 17 Allmann 18 Maslin-Kammerdeiner Coach: Dorrance v t e United States squad – 1995 FIFA Women's World Cup Third Place 1 Scurry 2 Staples 3 Manthei 4 Overbeck 5 Roberts 6 Keller 7 Rafanelli 8 Hamilton 9 Hamm 10 Akers 11 Foudy 12 Jennings 13 Lilly 14 Fawcett 15 Venturini 16 Milbrett 17 Lalor 18 Webber 19 Cromwell 20 Harvey Coach: DiCicco v t e United States squad – 1996 Summer Olympics (Women's Soccer) - Gold Medal 1 Scurry 2 Harvey 3 Parlow 4 Overbeck 5 Roberts 6 Chastain 7 Wilson 8 MacMillan 9 Hamm 10 Akers 11 Foudy 12 Gabarra 13 Lilly 14 Fawcett 15 Venturini 16 Milbrett 17 Cromwell 18 Staples Bryan 20 Webber Coach: DiCicco v t e United States squad – 1999 FIFA Women's World Cup Champions (2nd Title) 1 Scurry 2 Fair 3 Pearce 4 Overbeck 5 Roberts 6 Chastain 7 Whalen 8 MacMillan 9 Hamm 10 Akers 11 Foudy 12 Parlow 13 Lilly 14 Fawcett 15 Venturini 16 Milbrett 17 Fotopoulos 18 Webber 19 Ducar 20 Sobrero Coach: DiCicco v t e United States squad – 2003 FIFA Women's World Cup Third Place 1 Scurry 2 Bivens 3 Pearce 4 Reddick 5 Roberts 6 Chastain 7 Boxx 8 MacMillan 9 Hamm 10 Wagner 11 Foudy 12 Parlow 13 Lilly 14 Fawcett 15 Sobrero 16 Milbrett 17 Slaton 18 Mullinix 19 Hucles 20 Wambach Coach: Heinrichs

Brandi Chastain

Personal information
Full name	Brandi Denise Chastain
Date of birth	(1968-07-21) July 21, 1968 (age 43)
Place of birth	San Jose, California, United States
Height	5 ft 7 in (1.70 m)
Playing position	Defender/Midfielder(forward)
Club information
Current club	California Storm
Number	6
Youth career
1986	California Golden Bears
1989–1990	Santa Clara Broncos
Senior career*
Years	Team	Apps†	(Gls)†
1993	Shiroki F.C. Serena
	California Storm
2001–2003	Bay Area/San Jose CyberRays
2009	FC Gold Pride	10	(0)
2010–present	California Storm	5	(3)
National team‡
1988–2004	United States	192	(30)
Honours Women's football Competitor for the  United States Olympic Games Gold 1996 Atlanta Team competition Gold 2004 Athens Team competition Silver 2000 Sydney Team competition
* Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only and correct as of 00:56, October 14, 2009 (UTC). † Appearances (Goals). ‡ National team caps and goals correct as of 00:56, October 14, 2009 (UTC)

Brandi Denise Chastain (born July 21, 1968) is a professional American soccer defender and midfielder who plays for the team California Storm of Women's Premier Soccer League and is a former member of the United States women's national soccer team.

Chastain has played for San Jose CyberRays of the WUSA and FC Gold Pride of Women's Professional Soccer. She is best known for her game-winning penalty shootout kick against China in the 1999 FIFA Women's World Cup final and her bra-baring celebration afterwards.

Early playing career[link]

She attended Archbishop Mitty High School in San Jose, California, helping take the team to three section championships. In 1986 Chastain was awarded the Soccer America Freshmen Player Of The Year award at the University of California-Berkeley. Soon after, she underwent reconstructive surgery on both knees which caused her to miss much of the 1987 and 1988 seasons. She transferred to Santa Clara University before the start of the 1989 season, leading them to two Final Four NCAA appearances, 1989 and 1990, before she graduated in 1991.

Chastain first represented her country on June 1, 1988, against Japan. She scored her first (through fifth) international goals on April 18, 1991 when she came off the bench as a forward to score five consecutive goals in a 12–0 United States win in a CONCACAF FIFA Women's World Cup qualifier against Mexico. Team USA went on to win the World Cup, staged in China.

After that first World Cup, she played club soccer for one season in Japan in 1993, earning team MVP honors and was the only foreigner to be selected as one of the league's top 11 players.^[1]

As a defender, she made the U.S. National team again in 1996 and participated in the 1996 Atlanta Olympic Games, helping the Americans win the gold medal by playing every minute of every U.S. game, despite a third serious knee injury suffered in the semifinal against Norway.^[2] Of her 192 career caps, she played 89 primarily at defender during which she occasionally played midfielder.^[2]

Sports bra episode[link]

On July 10, 1999 at the Women's World Cup at the Rose Bowl in Pasadena, California, after scoring the fifth kick in the penalty shootout to give the United States the win over China in the final game, Chastain celebrated by spontaneously whipping off her jersey and falling to her knees in a sports bra, her fists clenched. This image was featured on the covers of Time, Newsweek, and Sports Illustrated.^[2]

Chastain's take on the incident was "Momentary insanity, nothing more, nothing less. I wasn’t thinking about anything. I thought, ‘This is the greatest moment of my life on the soccer field.’"^[3]

Professional career[link]

Chastain played on the San Jose CyberRays in the Women's United Soccer Association from its formation in 2001 until its suspension in 2003. She played on the US women's national team until her last game on 6 December 2004.

She appeared on an episode of Celebrity Jeopardy! on February 9, 2001, and won with $1. Her charity received $15,000. Host Alex Trebek alluded to the incident when he said, "I hope you win again."

She appeared in the HBO documentary Dare to Dream: The Story of the U.S. Women's Soccer Team.

Chastain's book about women's competitive sports is titled It’s Not About the Bra. (ISBN 978-0060765996)

She posed nude except for soccer cleats and a strategically placed soccer ball in the men's magazine Gear.^[2] Her appearance in the magazine created a controversy and the issue was brought up as a question at the Miss Teen USA pageant in 1999.

Chastain has been a color commentator on soccer telecasts on two networks. She broadcast for NBC Sports during the 2008 Summer Olympics.^[4] Her work with ABC/ESPN has included Major League Soccer matches and being part of a rotation of studio commentators for the 2011 FIFA Women's World Cup.^[5]

Chastain was the Official spokesperson for Pfizer's (legacy Wyeth) multivitamin product Centrum Ultra.^[6]

Career statistics[link]

Club career[link]